Written and Recorded

Hey Everyone!

This week was pretty good! We had tons of fun, and we had lots of success too! I was told that a written letter and a recording would be best, so I'll make a small written letter. Elder Mickelson and I are having tons of fun and the members are really stepping up their game and helping us out a lot.  We've been super busy, and had 2 exchanges this week.  We double booked two days this week, and it was crazy. Tons of moving parts. It's been fun.

Mullins and Mickelson

Monday, we went to the beach, dug a huge hole, and then took some panorama pictures that ended up not working.  This Chinese family (from China) was pumped to see white people and wanted to make all of their friends think that they had white friends.  We took a few pictures with them, and one of them was running around trying to get different angles, and he fell into our hole. Luckily, it was only 2 or 3 feet deep, but it was really big. He was ok though. After that, we went over to Adrian and Alana's house, and had a good lesson on missionary work.  Then we had some crazy Iban food. It was a throwback to Sarawak for sure. Alana is Iban, so she definitely cooked up her native foods. There was this stuff that they called Malaysian pickles. I have no idea what it was, but it was pretty good. Definitely not cucumbers.  It had a super strong taste though, and you put it on your noodles.

The hole the Chinese guy fell in

Tuesday... We met with some people. The best one was Jacki, the Taiwanese dude. He's wayyyy solid. He ate up the Plan of Salvation. He was loving it. He told us he was so grateful that we took time out of our evening to teach him all of this stuff, because his other church never taught him anything like it. We made sure that he realized his church didn't believe a lot of the stuff in the Plan of Salvation.  He ate it up for sure.

Wednesday was pretty fun. We had exchanges with the Tawau elders. They flew out on Tuesday night.  I went with Elder Howell, and we visited a bunch of people. Andrew came back from his village finally! He told us about how he shared the gospel with his entire church during their meeting, and the pastor didn't like it. Hahaha! The way he explained it was super funny. I talked about it a little more in the recording.

Andrew and Elder Howell

Thursday, we went out to this place we call Christianville for a while.  We followed up with some people, got a few people that were interested, and a family gave us some coconuts off of their tree. That was pretty good. We also met with a referral named Filowim, and he was pretty cool. We'll see what happens with him. We met with Jacki again, and he was PUMPED. We taught him the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and read about King Lamoni's father.  When we told Jacki about King Lamoni's Father, Jacki said he was reading right in the same spot. They had just learned the Plan of Salvation, and were asking what they could do to get Eternal Life. Then we read on about how King Lamoni's Father would give up all of his sins, and Jacki loved it. Then we taught him the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and Jacki was like, "I'm gonna become better by following this, then my friends will all see it, then they'll want to follow and be baptized too!" He's just so solid. Haha, way fun. He's definitely excited about the gospel.

Street to Christianville

Oh wait. Christianville was actually on Friday. Awkward. So that's what we did for most of FRIDAY, then went to a place called Keramat and followed up with lots of members we had met with and given commitments.

Christianville

Saturday was exchanges again, and I went with Elder DJ. We visited lots of people in KK1, and I showed him where everyone lived since he was new.  Tthen we found an old neighbor of a member and taught them the restoration, and they were interested in continuing to meet. So that was cool! Elder Mickelson met 3 people and taught them the restoration, then they ended up coming to church too! So that was cool.

On Sunday, we had church, then I felt a little sick after church, but I felt good enough to go out, so we went out, and it was fun. We taught Beron, and he's still going strong. We have a lot of new people we're teaching, and we don't really know howwww solid they are yet. We'll see. BUT. The branches in KK have officially changed languages. So KK2 is Malay still, and the other one is English.  Now we have to pass Jacki and Myles to the other missionaries… 2 of our 4 most solid investigators... So that's a bummer. But that's ok. We're still on the same team I guess.

It was an awesome week though! Everyone in the zone had a great week, and we did too! Haha, it's been great in KK, and I'm excited to stay longer and get the work moving forward in the branch here!

Love,

Elder Ben Mullins

Elder Mullins and Elder DJ

E. Mullins and E. Mickelson